Managing Report Instances

Introduction

The Cisco Service Control Application Reporter (SCA Reporter) installation includes report templates for a wide variety of reports, such as:

•Global, per package, or per subscriber hourly or daily usage volume per service

•Top server/clients/protocols/web hosts/e-mail senders/newsgroups

•Top P2P consumers/uploaders/downloaders/protocols

•Global, package, or subscriber bandwidth per service

Each report instance is based on a report template. You can create, select, duplicate, and delete report instances in the Templates view of the SCA Reporter. You can add frequently used reports to the Favorites view. When you select a report instance, its properties are displayed in the Properties view; you can specify values for the various report properties. For example, if you want to see global bandwidth per service, you can create a new report instance from the Templates view. The Properties view allows you to specify the desired service(s), traffic direction, and time frame (either start/end time or previous number of hours).

The exact procedure for defining a report instance depends on the report template selected. The example in this chapter is intended as a general guide to the process of creating and defining a new report instance.

The report instance has the name Global Bandwidth per Service versus Total Bandwidth #1. (If you create another report instance from this report template, it will be named Global Bandwidth per Service vs Total Bandwidth #2, and so on. You can optionally rename report instances by entering a name in the Report namefield.)

Step 3 Configure the report instance properties.

If any property has the value (not set), you must assign it a value (Figure 4-4).

Duplicating an Existing Report Instance

Duplicating an existing report instance is a useful way to create a new report instance similar to an existing report instance. It is faster to duplicate a report instance and then modify the duplicate, rather than to define the new report instance.